Yeserday at school we had our "exit exams." They are similar to a final exam, except they are not counted as part of your final grade. They are used to determine your current speaking level in Spanish. We will let you know what ours turn out to be. Really, it is still very subjective. We could have had a bad or a good day, the teacher performing the oral test with us could have thought we did better or worse than we really did. So luckily it doesn't really matter, although we may be able to use our year of Spanish here to add to a degree as a minor with some schools, and that is where this official test comes to play.
We are now just under 3 weeks out from leaving for Ecuador. We are stinking EXCITED!!! Now that the visa process seems to be under control, we have really felt released to start thinking that all these years of work are really going to put us in Ecuador doing exactly what we have trained and prepared for. This coming week is vacation for us, so we are going to pack and get our things in order. Pray that Becca and I get along good as we pack. We joke with each other about packing, but for those of you who have packed anything (who hasn't?) then you know it can be stressfull.
On a lighter note...We locked ourselves out of our house today, well kind of. You see, we had our keys with us, but there was also the other set of keys in the other side of the lock, which prevented us from turning the deadbolt from the outside. The locks here are a bit different than in the states, and our front door is the ONLY way to get in and out of our house, so we couldn't just go "around to the back." What I ended up doing was removing 2 small panes of glass from our louvers, cutting the screen (never know when you'll need your Leatherman), and using a long piece of metal to kind of jingle the keys on the inside loose. Thanks to Jose our street gaurd for his help and the metal "thingy" he supplied. All in all, it took us about 5-10 minutes to get into our house and we can now chalk up another "don't do that again stupid."
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